A DARN GOOD YEAR.....EPISODE 8

LAGOS (Ajah) 2:45 am

Sam had never been the type to be interrupted while sleeping, after speaking her mind and freeing her soul yester night she fought hard to keep her eyes dry and refused to shed another tear for Segun, Laura and Jason.  She now had to live for herself and stop walking in their shadows, she felt drained and used by the ones she truly cared for. Opening her eyes as she yawned she reluctantly  picked the phone on the third ring.

“Hi”

“Please, I’m dying can you come to my house”

Hearing a strange but somewhat familiar male voice Sam looked at her screen, she could not identify the number but replied “I’m coming, where is your address”

“House 13, Portland road. Lekki”

Now certain she doesn’t know the stranger calling, fear crept in and took hold of her, afraid her mind worked quickly “it may be a thief, sophisticated plot to kidnap,  or it may be Kojo”  she steadied herself and asked “ who are you”

“Ko…..” and click the phone went off

Instinctively she wore a top on her pajamas pant and ran through the house almost bumping on Segun who raced after her asking where she was going. Sam lost all sense of reason and fear took hold of her as adrenaline pumped faster she raced towards the car, jumped inside and honked her horn signalling the gateman on duty to open the gate. She started screaming "Jason you’re not going to die, mama is coming" and the gateman closed the gate as Segun caught the last glimpse of the car she rode.

“Sam is gradually losing her mind, why would she be screaming for Jason”, reluctantly he went back to the house and picked a key to his AMG G 65 , he started the car and drove down the road.

LAGOS (Lekki) 3:30 am

Sam screeched to a halt in front of a 13 Portland road and it was a tastefully furnished duplex, her mind flashed back to Jason again……how she got the news that he jumped from 3^rd mainland bridge. He was rushed to the hospital but could only mumble “I’m sorry mum, but I just can’t live without her.”

Emotions welled up inside her and she made for the door, banging and banging with no answer……she ran around the house and saw an opened sliding window, she navigated her way through and went about looking for Jason….She reached him and found him unconscious, she tried to resuscitate him and also found his pulse. She was a member of the Red Cross society but gave it up to be a full time mother. She called her family hospital and gave directions as she kept holding on to him shouting “I’m not going to lose you again”. The ambulance arrived in the next fifteen minutes and she went to the hospital with them.